StratNeuro funding for postdoctoral researchers 2024
The StratNeuro Postdoctoral funding is designed to support exceptional postdoctoral researchers in both basic and clinical neuroscience who are currently conducting research at KI. This year, we received 28 applications from 7 different departments.
Each funded project will receive 800,000 SEK to cover the postdoctoral researcher's salary for one year.
Evaluation process
A total of 26 proposals were eligible for external review. The eligible proposals were assessed by a panel of 4 external reviewers, and the StratNeuro board has chosen to fund the top ten ranked submissions, resulting in an overall funding rate of 35.7%.
Women made up 60% of the total applicants and also accounted for 60% of the awardees.
The different departments were represented as follows:
- Department of Neuroscience (35.7%)
- Institute of Environmental Medicine (3.6%)
- Department of Neurobiology, Care sciences and Society (25%)
- Department of Clinical Neurosience (14.3%)
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (10.7%)
- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition (7.1%)
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Huddinge (3.6%)
The panel of external reviewers was formed by:
- Gunnar Gouras, Lund University
- Matias Palva, University of Helsinki
- Iskra Pollak Dorocic, Stockholm University
- Paolo Medini, Umeå University
Awardees
In alphabetical order:
- Anna Inguanzo Pons, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society: "Towards precision medicine in Parkinson's disease: Developing imagingbased biomarkers for predicting disease progression and monitoring treatment efficacy"
- Annegret Habich, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society: "Determinants of structural and functional neurodegeneration in dementia with lewy bodies"
- Emma Gerrits, Department of Neuroscience: "Molecular characterization of cellular heterogeneity in the central nervous system of FTD and ALS patients. "
- Katharina Heining, Department of Neuroscience: "Spatiotemporal activity patterns and information flow in the PFC"
- Konstantinos Poulakis, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society: "The interaction between Alzheimer’s and cerebrovascular disease in the different dementia stages."
- Lisha Wang, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society: "PROTACs: A novel strategy for the treatment of Alzheimer disease"
- Rakesh Kumar , Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society: "Diagnosis of Lewy body diseases using the novel ultrasensitive Real Time-Quaking Induced Conversion (RT-QuIC) biomarker"
- Renzo Lanfranco, Department of Neuroscience: "Becoming aware of our own body: unravelling the computational and neural mechanisms of bodily-self awareness"
- Shih-Hsin Chang, Department of Neuroscience: "Proprioceptive control of brainstem motor commands"
- Xavier Job, Department of Neuroscience: "Neural mechanisms of somatosensory prediction"
Congratulations to all the awardees!